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Does fly larval cooperative behavior protect against parasitic wasps?
Does fly larval cooperative behavior protect against parasitic wasps?
Larval Drosophila exhibit cooperative foraging behavior in which groups of animals synchronize digging movements to form d...
Reflections on the neural processing of echoes for distance information in echolocating bats
Reflections on the neural processing of echoes for distance information in echolocating bats
Multiple neural specializations in echolocating bats enable target distance determination by measurement of the delay betw...
Growing up together or apart: rearing experience effects on opposite-sex sibling discrimination in Chilean brush tailed mouse ()
Growing up together or apart: rearing experience effects on opposite-sex sibling discrimination in Chilean brush tailed mouse ()
Kin recognition refers to the discrimination and subsequent behavioral bias toward relatives and represents an important m...
Correction: Physiological and behavioural responses of wandering albatross chicks () to novel and non-novel predators
Correction: Physiological and behavioural responses of wandering albatross chicks () to novel and non-novel predators
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, whi...
Developing broad brains: the importance of an early introduction to evolutionary thinking in undergraduate neuroscience programs
Developing broad brains: the importance of an early introduction to evolutionary thinking in undergraduate neuroscience programs
There have been a number of calls for neuroscience to embrace a wider range of model systems. Authors of these opinion pie...
Confusion and human errors in locating synthetic frog calls: Insights into the evolution of a vocal communication signal
Confusion and human errors in locating synthetic frog calls: Insights into the evolution of a vocal communication signal
Vocal communication behavior in anurans is energetically expensive and can reveal caller locations, making them vulnerable...
The effects of interaural time and level differences on the binaural interaction component of the auditory brainstem response in Cope’s gray treefrogs
The effects of interaural time and level differences on the binaural interaction component of the auditory brainstem response in Cope’s gray treefrogs
Processing binaural cues is crucial for many acoustic communication tasks, and understanding the neural mechanisms of bina...
Echolocating free-tailed bats use vision and hearing but not magnetoreception when navigating a maze
Echolocating free-tailed bats use vision and hearing but not magnetoreception when navigating a maze
Insectivorous bats navigate mainly by echolocation, but may also use visual, olfactory, and magnetic cues when travelling ...
Testosterone and estradiol predict male calling performance, but not performance-related tradeoffs, in competitive signaling environments in Cope’s gray treefrogs ()
Testosterone and estradiol predict male calling performance, but not performance-related tradeoffs, in competitive signaling environments in Cope’s gray treefrogs ()
Acoustic signals in anurans are classic models for understanding how endocrine mechanisms regulate courtship behavior. How...
Flupyradifurone impairs the processing of sound signals by the ascending interneurons AN1 and AN2 that convey auditory information to the cricket brain
Flupyradifurone impairs the processing of sound signals by the ascending interneurons AN1 and AN2 that convey auditory information to the cricket brain
Flupyradifurone is a butenolide insecticide with growing agricultural significance as a substitute for classical neonicoti...
Attachment ability and mating behaviour of the black soldier fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
Attachment ability and mating behaviour of the black soldier fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), also known as black soldier fly (BSF), offers an important sustainable approac...
A tale of two ears: development of binaural auditory processing in the big brown bat
A tale of two ears: development of binaural auditory processing in the big brown bat
Big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) pups are born naked, blind, and with closed external ear canals. We examined the ears of ...
Spatial and spectrotemporal features of noise alter female responses to costly male signals in Cope’s gray treefrog ()
Spatial and spectrotemporal features of noise alter female responses to costly male signals in Cope’s gray treefrog ()
In anuran choruses, where many males call simultaneously, females must identify attractive conspecific signals amid high l...
Iridescence, polarisation and directionality of butterfly displays
Iridescence, polarisation and directionality of butterfly displays
Morpho butterflies are widely known for their striking blue colourations, which are produced by multilayered ridges of the...
Nightly changes in neural activity and auditory processing of song control neurons depend on melatonin
Nightly changes in neural activity and auditory processing of song control neurons depend on melatonin
Birdsong, as many complex behavioral patterns, needs to be acquired, maintained and adjusted throughout life. In songbirds...
Tail-rattling in rodents: more than a threat display
Tail-rattling in rodents: more than a threat display
One of the most peculiar behaviors of rodents is tail-rattling, a rapid vibration of the tail which can produce a rattling...
Greater Japanese horseshoe bats () gradually converge their echolocation call frequency to colony members
Greater Japanese horseshoe bats () gradually converge their echolocation call frequency to colony members
In bats using CF-FM echolocation calls, CF component frequencies vary among colonies, across geographic regions, and betwe...
E122Q rhodopsin: pigment microspectrophotometry, photoreceptor light responses, and bleaching adaptation
E122Q rhodopsin: pigment microspectrophotometry, photoreceptor light responses, and bleaching adaptation
When the rhodopsin visual pigment of vertebrate rods absorbs light, photoisomerization of its 11-cis retinal chromophore t...
Jewel beetles, Buprestidae, modulate bright structural colours by multileveled optical engineering and surface sculpting
Jewel beetles, Buprestidae, modulate bright structural colours by multileveled optical engineering and surface sculpting
The elytra and pronotum of numerous Buprestidae, or jewel beetles, are brightly coloured due to stacked chitin and melanin...
Crepuscular vocal partitioning and thermal limits on calling behavior in the Bubbling Kassina () in a sub-equatorial savanna
Crepuscular vocal partitioning and thermal limits on calling behavior in the Bubbling Kassina () in a sub-equatorial savanna
Acoustic communication in anurans is energetically costly and constrained by environmental factors, especially in open sav...
Pupil dynamics reveal the tuning of tortricid moths to diel activity
Pupil dynamics reveal the tuning of tortricid moths to diel activity
Insect compound eyes adapt in response to average stimulus intensity, but the adaptation is mediated also by intrinsic cir...
Sex-limited diversification of the eye in butterflies
Sex-limited diversification of the eye in butterflies
Butterflies have evolved a remarkable diversity in eye organization to support a range of vision-based behaviors including...
Divergent sensory transcriptomic profiles in positive and negative learning in butterflies
Divergent sensory transcriptomic profiles in positive and negative learning in butterflies
Mate preference learning, where individuals learn to prefer or avoid specific phenotypes during mate selection, is pervasi...
Analysis of inductance-like effects of delayed rectifiers: amplification of voltage response onset, acceleration of decay, and voltage- and kinetics-dependent limitations
Analysis of inductance-like effects of delayed rectifiers: amplification of voltage response onset, acceleration of decay, and voltage- and kinetics-dependent limitations
Delayed-rectifier voltage-gated K+ conductances (IK) can confer band-pass properties to the membrane impedance gain functi...
Hawkmoths can smell with grooming organs on their legs
Hawkmoths can smell with grooming organs on their legs
The antennae are the primary olfactory organs of insects, though other appendages, such as mouthparts and the female ovipo...
Not too different: learning at the pondside and in the lab
Not too different: learning at the pondside and in the lab
In 1973, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, and Nikolaas Tinbergen ...
From skylight cues to magnetic fields: the toolkit of insect long-distance navigation
From skylight cues to magnetic fields: the toolkit of insect long-distance navigation
Despite their tiny size, lepidopterans accomplish some of the most extraordinary migrations on Earth. Monarch butterflies ...
Synchronous waving in a dotillid crab : behavioral analyses using a robotic model
Synchronous waving in a dotillid crab : behavioral analyses using a robotic model
The waving behavior exhibited by some species of male mudflat-dwelling crabs is characterized by rhythmic claw movement, w...
Integrating electrophysiology, behavioral response, and docking studies to decipher odorant-binding protein function in the brinjal shoot and fruit borer, Guenee
Integrating electrophysiology, behavioral response, and docking studies to decipher odorant-binding protein function in the brinjal shoot and fruit borer, Guenee
The brinjal shoot and fruit borer, Leucinodes orbonalis Guenée, inflicts significant yield losses in brinjal, often r...
Mechanosensory cephalic bristles mediate rapid flight initiation in hawkmoths
Mechanosensory cephalic bristles mediate rapid flight initiation in hawkmoths
Endothermic insects including bees, butterflies, and moths need to warm up their flight muscles before taking flight. For ...
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